It is believed that the QWERTY layout was developed by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1873. Sholes was an editor and printer, and he was the one who filed a patent with the layout in 1878. That is true.
However, it should also be mentioned that the invention became possible thanks to many telegraph operators who used the machines to transcribe Morse code and were a part of the layout transformation. Many changes took place over several years before the first alphabetical layout became the QWERTY one.
Many still believe that QWERTY was designed in order to prevent the keys from jamming. That myth was debunked by Japanese researchers who claimed Sholes had never had an intention to slow down typists. The point is that the early users of Type-Writer were Morse receivers. Logically, the speed of Morse receiver and Morse sender should be equal. That is why Sholes couldn’t even think about making a sender or a receiver not be able to catch up with each other.
William Hofer who was a science writer stated that Sholes spread the most frequently used letters E, T, O, A, N, and I, all over the board and made sure that the combinations like “ed” would be typed by the same finger.
On the contrary, in 1936, the Dvorak layout named after its inventor August Dvorak was created to maximize typing efficiency. The studies carried out by Dvorak showed that the typists’ speed on his layout was usually 74% faster than on QWERTY and the accuracy was higher by 68%. Even though Dvorak couldn’t replace QWERTY, many modern operating systems like Windows and Linux allow its user to switch to the Dvorak layout.
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